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  1. mole42
    Avoid chemical stimulants. Water is essential as are regular driver changes. Last time we changed every two hours. We're going 3-up which allows the back-seat sleeper to return to driving refreshed.
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    Team 50's Stag: Swapped the differential again today. Managed to seal some more leaky joints on the exhaust. Changed the oil and filter. Wired up the Cibié Oscar spotlights which I'll be using for the RBRR. Wired up the 220W electric fan which helps the temperature gauge stay on the low side of "N" even in today's heat and traffic. Half-wired the relays for Dip and Main but ran out of time. Press Day on Saturday so there's be blind people and dogs all over the car and hopefully some good pics in the newspapers. Should up the ante a bit. Richard
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    I wouldn't risk 2000 miles on tyres that have been flat for a year. But then, I wouldn't risk any more miles than from my home to the tyre fitters on tyres that had been flat for a year!
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    The Stag B posts are a substantial part of the shell and it may be difficult to reproduce the strength and fittings in the saloon shell.
  5. mole42
    That's the accepted definition of a spares box.
  6. mole42
    I've just finished making the brackets for my Lucas fog lights, and nearly finished the bracket for the Cibié Oscar spotlights. Relay panel going in the week after I get back from holiday.
  7. mole42
    The other thing is that to drop the rear suspension unit you need to take the exhaust off, whereas to change the diff you only need remove the pipe that runs behind it. Much easier!
  8. mole42
    "undo bolts and brake lines" One of the main reasons why I prefer to do a diff change with the suspension in situ. I really don't like bleeding brakes!
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    Ok, but he didn't say that. I changed the bearing in mine with the rear suspension in situ. It's not difficult, just undo the propshaft before you take the diff out, undo the nut on the drive flange and then take the diff out. You can then take the shaft out, release the circlip holding the bearing and knock it out backwards. Refitting is just the reverse. I made it a bit easier by making a tool to fit the splined end of the quill shaft so that I can undo the drive flange without a diff fitted. Richard
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    Easiest is to just drop the diff off the nose extension - four bolts, and the two at the back. It saves undoing the propshaft, brakes etc. I can do mine in about an hour now. You need to support the rear of the car on axle stands under the outer subframe mountings so that the whole subframe can tilt down. The right hand exhaust rear pipe has to come off, that usually takes longer than the diff change. Talk to Marcus in Maryport for your replacement diff. Richard
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    I'm now trying to sort out brackets to fit the Cibié Oscar spotlights to the front of Team 50's Stag without having them scrape on sleeping policemen or blank off the airflow through the radiator! Above or below the bumper? Decisions, decisions!
  12. mole42
    Are there any other teams from Bristol this year? I thought we could contact the local blind dogs and get a photo shoot / publicity date together with the Evening Post / TV / etc Mole42@gmail.com
  13. mole42
    Team 50's car has competed a 900 mile shakedown to The Hague and back. No problems but I'll be checking all four corners over the Summer.
  14. mole42
    Oh, are we supposed to wash the car before the event? I'd better add that to the list. The propshaft's in having a new tube-in-tube and new u/Js fitted this week.
  15. mole42
    The TR7 ones look completely different.
  16. mole42
    Team 50. The Stag got a new MOT two days ago, so now there really isn't any excuse.
  17. mole42
    MOT on Monday, get that out of the way then really get on with the preparation....
  18. mole42
    I still have 365 days of work to do......
  19. mole42
    The counter lies, but we all have far more preparation to do than can be done in the days we have allocated to preparation!! But I think it's excluding weekends....so we keep our wives/partners/SO's happy!!
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    Team 50 - just fitted new cylinder head gaskets.....!
  21. mole42
    So long as you drive the whole route in a 948cc Herald.
  22. mole42
    Using the A6 out of Carlisle, joining the M6 before Tebay would be an interesting night drive!
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    'Tis a shame that the road conditions are so dismal! I would have thought that Bristol at 3am might be a possibility as may be Exeter at 4 on a Sunday morning. However, I think that the route will be every bit as exciting as the 1990 one I did. I'm just suffering an attack of overwhelming nostalgia.
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    I've been looking at the old road books and wonder if it would be possible to use the route that was used in 1966 or have the bypasses and newer motorways destroyed that possibility? Richard
  25. mole42
    Flat cap's a grand idea, don't bother with those bl**dy baseball caps that everyone wears. I like the sunstrip idea - the CLUB TRIUMPH one could be made a little more specific for the 2016 RBRR. A necktie would be good as well, with reference to the 2016 RBRR
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